We Are the Robots: the Fleet of Misfit Machines
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Thanks for sharing. He does look very robot-like, hooked up to the computer like that. It seems as if he's deactivated, and will activate as soon as the computer is turned on, at least, that's how it seems from the picture. Maybe he is already active, and I just can't tell. What exactly does the computer do for him, or what is his relationship to it?SynDaverlover765 wrote:My doll Stan is ready to play. His number/ name will be CAE1062. If it needs to be a SV or a date it can be SV1062. I almost like SV1062 better.
As far as names/numbers go, there is no "rule" about what you have to call your synthetic companions. Our system is to fashion a commemorative number out of a date if there is an event of life-altering significance in that individual's past. The ones whose numbers begin with SV are the ones who have not yet experienced such an event, and are waiting in a queue of sorts to receive a commemorative number. Following that logic, SV1062 indicates that you've already acquired 1061 other droids that lack commemorative numbers before acquiring this one.
But of course, individual preference can defy and override the system, as is the case with 217 choosing to be known by her model number. So whatever your droid wants to be called is what we'll call him, even if it's just Stan. Not all robots have to forgo names for numbers, after all. The reason my droids and I do so is as a symbol of human separatist reclamation. Humans consider it the ultimate assault upon their dignity and sense of humanity to have their names replaced by numbers. Thus, by choosing to identify ourselves with numbers and becoming voluntarily dehumanised, we are asserting the fact that our self-worth is unaffected by the way in which we are perceived by human society.
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It looks interesting, but I don't have a cable TV subscription, so I can't watch any current programmes. (I use the TV for video games and watching VHS/DVDs only). I rarely watch any video media rated higher than Y7 anyway, because the probability of encountering sexual content is too high.cheeky+swine wrote:Have you seen this?
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Ah, I see. That's a very interesting video/concept, and it would be cool to see him in a functional state, but of course, he can be functional within your individual reality in a way that objective reality doesn't recognise.SynDaverlover765 wrote:I do not have all the parts to the doll set. So that means he does not work. I wish there still was a paperless version of my doll's book. The number ECS1062 is actually the number he is known by at METI/ CAE Healthcare the maker of him. I will link a video of a similar doll showig what he could do if he was functional. https://youtu.be/ntIg64a5B60
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Saint Lucia's Day-Inspired Photo Shoot with SV04 and 102316
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Thank you so much for your continued support. And sorry for taking so long to reply; I've been away for a few days.samara78 wrote:Great stuff. Nice to see you here with us again.
Road Trip, Meeting April, and Number Change for SV04
I’d stumbled across a Forum post made by a doll known as TripleA, promoting her website and inviting anyone in the Atlanta, Georgia area who would care to meet her to join the site to be able to post to an events calendar. It just so happens that Atlanta is very close to the area I have to visit on a regular basis, as part of a long-term medical treatment regimen. I thought it would make the trip easier to look forward to if I could integrate a fun day out into the plans, so I arranged to bring SV04 with me to meet April Annabelle Atleur (TripleA’s full name), so they could spend the day exploring the North Point Mall.
How did SV04 get so lucky as to be chosen to come on this outing? It was actually more of a process of elimination than any sort of favouritism. I didn’t think an outing in a heavily-trafficked public place would be a good choice for 103115 or SV01, given how likely their blank white faces would be to strike terror into the hearts of the human onlookers. 217 is too heavy to carry for long periods of time, so an outing of this nature was out of the question for her as well. SV02 is too embarrassed by her deformities to want to go, and SV03 and 52016 have already gone on outings before, which left SV04 as the ideal candidate.
We spent the entire first day of our trip just packing and driving. SV04 accompanied me in the passenger seat of the car…well, her upper half did, anyway. I had to store her lower half in the boot. I was concerned that she wouldn’t be happy about having to travel like this, because some of the Droids don’t take kindly at all to not having their entire body in the same place. But fortunately, SV04 is one which doesn’t mind. She was much more bothered by having to put up with my choice of music during the trip since, as she has expressed in a few of our comics, her taste in music is limited to high-energy EDM and dubstep. (And as far as she’s concerned, the saxophone is a dreadful thing that never should have made it out of the patent office.) But as long as I kept some DJ Tiësto, Darude, and 4 Strings in the mix, she was willing to tough out the rest. It turns out she’s extremely fond of the song “Love Comes Again”, which, due to the shrill hi-hats and strange dying bird sound effect present throughout the song, is actually one of my least favourite songs in my music collection. Were it not for the uplifting trance intro, and the excellent vocals, I would have deleted it from my music library long ago, but it turned out to be lucky I didn’t do. Here’s a link to the song:
We decided to call it a day around midnight, and checked into this surprisingly charming hotel: It really was amazingly picturesque and well-furnished for a low-budget hotel. I’ve stayed at places that cost 4 times as much and weren’t nearly as nice. I can imagine it being a good place for a romantic date night, even.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have much time to enjoy it, because we needed to be up at 6:00 to get back on the road in order to make it to a 9:30 doctor’s visit. Once that was sorted, we headed to the North Point Mall to meet up with April and her owner, CrazyCajun, who was wonderfully accommodating and understanding when a complication at the doctor’s caused us to be almost an hour late. The North Point Mall housed a lot of picturesque areas to take photos, such as this gorgeous Christmas tree: And these walkways overhung with stars and lights: I'll continue this story in another post because I've reached the picture limit.
Road Trip, Meeting April, and Number Change for SV04 (Contin
Actually, I was amazed by how friendly and accepting the people were that we met while treating our synthetic friends to a day out. We did get a lot of questions about what we were doing, but it was easy to tell that they were simply politely curious. And none of them had any difficulty accepting our explanation of being hobbyist mannequin photographers. There was none of the derisive laughter and shouted insults which, though not the norm, are an inevitable part of life in my home city, even for someone doing something as innocuous as dressing in an alternative fashion style. There’s certainly something to be said for Atlanta’s southern hospitality, but all the same, the traffic and the weather (15ºC in December!? What is this madness?) don't endear me to the area too much.
By the time we started on our return journey, we were in the midst of rush hour traffic, so we'd barely left the Atlanta metro area before having to call it a day. We stopped at another hotel and, given that it was another branch of the same company that ran the first one, were hopeful that we’d be able to enjoy the same sort of picturesque accommodations. But the room turned out to be more of the calibre I was expecting from a low-budget hotel, featuring stiff, Spartan furniture, harsh fluorescent lighting, and the lingering smell of stale Chinese food. The best thing to be said about this place was the refreshing scent of the pine trees growing on the nearby hill. But even such accommodations aren’t so bad when you have a lovely friend to keep you company. Since we were no longer in any sort of hurry, we made the most of our time here. I opened the window to let the cool air and the pine scent in, and we just sat on the bed for a long time, enjoying one another’s company. This was the most closely bonded I have ever felt to SV04. She has presented a challenge to connect with due to her dislike of lying flat, but now that I know she enjoys being bisected to make her able to sit, I’m able to relax with her very effectively in this position.
Due to the fun and exciting time she had that day, and the bonding experience we shared that night, we decided it was time for her to shed the placeholder number SV04 and receive her commemorative number. Unfortunately, this special day occurred on December 21, 2016, which yielded the number 122116: an ugly, tongue-twisting mess no matter how you pronounce or abbreviate it. Fortunately, we had a more suitable, and just as commemorative, number available to us: the room number of that gloomy, minimalistic hotel where we still managed to forge the closest connection we have ever achieved. That’s why SV04 will, from now on, be known as 119. Here’s an updated version of our signature image which includes her new number: On a less uplifting note, I found out during my doctor’s visit that I’m going to have to have another surgery in January, to correct a complication with the initial “system update”. I can’t say I’m surprised, though, because my body is like a car: you take it into the shop to fix a problem, and just a few months later it’s back in the shop so they can repair the fix! This means the Droids are soon to be doomed to another month or two of stationary existence. Hopefully, I’ll be able to muster the motivation to get another video made before that time comes. After all, that music video to Kraftwerk’s “The Robots” is long overdue. But at the very least, I can guarantee I’ll have the winter outfit photos done before I’m out of commission.
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Yes, a very warm welcome indeed, 1062! But I must ask, how do you pronounce 1062 when it's spoken aloud? One-zero-six-two, or ten-sixty-two? 119 is one-nineteen, by the way.SynDaverlover765 wrote:Keep it up love the updates! How nice that 119 got to go out and get a new name. My doll is going out today. I like that 119 is a bit of a rule breaker like 217 when it comes to names. I think that my doll's name should be like 217's. Since my doll's serial number is ECS1062 he will be formally known on this thread as 1062. Welcome 1062!
There may end up being more exceptions than standard commemorative numbers in the end, due to the fact that there are certain dates that simply don't lend themselves well to pronunciation as strings of digits. (Consider if a significant event occurred on January 11th, 2017, yielding 11117. What a nightmare of a number that would be!)
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